Slow Food launches Amatrice quake relief
The village in the Apennine mountains in the Lazio regionin central Italy is also the birthplace of the world-famous'amatriciana' pasta sauce based on cured pork cheek, pecorinocheese, and tomato.
The 'A Future for Amatrice' campaign - launched by Slow Foodin agreement with Amatrice Mayor Sergio Pirozzi - calls onrestaurants around the world to put pasta all'amatriciana ontheir menu for a year, with two Euro from every dish served going to the quake relief fund.
"We want to contribute and to avoid the risk of the initialgenerous impetus and attention wearing off after a couple ofweeks," said Slow Food founder and chief, Claudio Petrini.
"Amatriciana pasta is a humble dish, symbolic of a farmingculture that is based on solidarity". Fund-raising for Amatrice must be "lasting and constant",Petrini added.
The donations - with one Euro coming from the restaurateurand one Euro from the client for every amatriciana dish served -will go directly to the City of Amatrice, whose InternationalBank Account Number (IBAN) is IT 28 M 08327 73470 000000006000. Petrini will present the campaign in Copenhagen at asymposium with over 400 chefs from around the world.